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2004 AAEA Annual Award Winners

Outstanding Master’s Thesis

  • SIMON ZBINDEN, Cornell University, “Costa Rica’s Payments for Environmental Services Programs: An Economic Analysis of Program Participation and Performance”, David Lee, Advisor

Honorable Mention

  • SHAWN JOSEPH BUCHOLTZ, University of Maryland, “Estimating the Value of Permanently Preserved and Developable Open Space in Urban Fringe Counties”, Loretta M. Lynch, Advisor

Outstanding PhD Dissertation Award

  • KURT SCHNIER, University of Arizona, "Economic Analysis of Spatially Heterogeneous Resources: The Case of the Fishery", James Cox, Advisor

Honorable Mention

  • MICHELE VILLINSKI, University of Minnesota, "A Framework for Pricing Multiple-Exercise Option Contracts for Water", Jay Coggins, Advisor

Distinguished Teaching

Less than 10 Years’ Experience

  • MARSHALL FRASIER, Colorado State University

Undergraduate, More than 10 Years’ Experience

  • DANIEL TILLEY, Oklahoma State University

Graduate, More Than 10 Years’ Experience

  • B. WADE BRORSEN, Oklahoma State University

Distinguished Extension Program

Individual

  • GEORGE F. PATRICK, Purdue University

Group

  • ROBERT CRAVEN, EDWARD USSET, WYNN RICHARDSON, TIM ARLT, WILLIAM CRAIG, GARY HACHFELD and BRET OELKE, University of Minnesota; ROGER SELLEY, H. DOUGLAS JOSE, TERENCE HEJNY, ROBERT MEDUNA and DAVID GOELLER, University of Nebraska; ROY SMITH; KEITH BANTA, County Hedging, Inc., members of the “Winning the Game” team

Quality of Communication Award

  • C. FORD RUNGE, BENJAMIN SENAUER, PHILIP G. PARDEY, University of Minnesota and MARK W. ROSEGRANT, IFPRI, “Ending Hunger in Our Lifetime: Food Security and Globalization”, John Hopkins University Press

Honorable Mention

  • FRANK A. SLOAN, Duke University, V. KERRY SMITH, North Carolina State University and DONALD H. TAYLOR, Duke University, “The Smoking Puzzle: Information, Risk Perception, and Choice”, Harvard University Press

Quality of Research Discovery Award

  • MARTIN SMITH, Duke University and JAMES WILEN, University of California at Davis, "Economic Impacts of Marine Reserves: The Importance of Spatial Behavior", Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 46 (2003)

Outstanding Journal Article Award: AJAE

  • MICHAEL CARTER, University of Wisconsin and PEDRO OLINTO, IFPRI, "Getting Institutions ‘Right’ for Whom? Credit Constraints and the Impact of Property Rights on the Quantity and Composition of Investment", American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 85 (February): 173-186

Outstanding Journal Article Award: RAE

  • TOMISLAV VUKINA, North Carolina State University, “The Relationship between Contracting and Livestock Waste Pollution”, Review of Agricultural Economics, 25(1): 66-88

Honorable Mention

  • PAUL WILSON and GARY THOMPSON, University of Arizona, “Time Integration: Agribusiness Structure for Competitive Advantage”, Review of Agricultural Economics, 25(1): 30-43

Outstanding Journal Article Award: Choices

  • COLIN A. CARTER and GUILLAUME P. GRUERE, University of California at Davis, "International Approaches to the Labeling of Genetically Modified Foods”, Choices (Second Quarter, 2003)

Publication of Enduring Quality Award

  • JAMES EALES, Purdue University and LAURIAN UNNEVEHR, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, “Demand for Beef and Chicken Products: Separability and Structural Change”, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 70(1988): 521-532

Fellows

  • Kym Anderson
  • Derek Byerlee
  • Gerald Carlson
  • Thomas W. Hertel
  • Timothy E. Josling
  • Richard J. Sexton

Poster Session Awards

1st Place

  • Lonnie Vandeveer, Patricia Soto, Steven Henning, Huizhen Niu, and Rebecca McLaren, Louisiana State University, “Measuring Spatial Dynamics of Growth at the Urban Fringe”

2nd Place

  • Catherine Kling, Hongli Feng, Lyubov Kurkalova, Silvia Secchi, Phillip W. Gassman, Manoj Jha, Todd Campbell, Arathi Bhaskar, Cristopher Burkart, Sanchita Sengupta, Rebecca Olson, Iowa State University, “Policies to Improve Water Quality: In-Stream versus Edge-of-field Assessment”

3rd Place

  • Ogbonnaya Nwoha, Susan Watson, Gary Kennedy, and Kenneth Rea, Louisiana Tech University, “Characteristics of Rural E-Commerce Adopters in the South”

Graduate Student Case Study Competition

First Place

  • Lindsey Higgins, Pablo Ramirez, Texas A&M University

Second Place

  • Michelle Mullins, Jane Njuguna, Andrea Woolverton, University of Missouri

Third Place

  • Brian Briggeman, Joshua Detre, Purdue University Team #2

Outstanding Student Paper Awards

First Place

  • Rik R. Smith, University of Nebraska at Lincoln

Second Place

  • Natalie Zimmer, University of Alberta

Third Place

  • Amanda Kirksey, Pacific Lutheran University

Outstanding Chapter Award

  • Iowa State University (Ronald Deiter, Advisor)

Creative Club Award

  • Iowa State University (Ronald Deiter, Advisor)